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WORLD
Thursday, January 20,20(K)
THE BATTALION
Russia pushes Grozny assault Turks
ir f : .v. Januai
GROZNY, Russia (AP)—The Russ
ian military redoubled its drive to eon-
quer Chechen rebels yesterday, with
troops fighting street by street in the cap
ital Grozny while helicopter gunships
and cannons relentlessly pounded the
southern mountains.
Lt. Gen. Gennady Troshev, Russia’s
deputy chief commander in Chechnya,
announced Wednesday that the war was
expected to be over by Feb. 26, although
“nobody is giving the forces any firm
deadlines for ending the operation,” the
Interfax news agency reported.
He did not explain how he arrived at
that date.
Federal forces pushed toward the cen
ter of Grozny from several directions, try
ing to squeeze rebel fighters into an ever-
tightening circle, the military said.
It was impossible to verify the army’s
claims of progress. Reporters are con
strained from moving freely about the
capital because of the danger and the re
strictions imposed by both the Russian
and Chechen sides.
But an Associated Press reporter
watched yesterday as Russian forces in a
northwestern neighborhood called
Mikrorayon-3 seized several shell-punc
tured, five-ston apartment buildings.
They failed to take nearby nine-story
buildings, from which Chechen snipers
kept up a steady barrage of bullets.
Russian jets rained bombs on the city
throughout the day, sending deafening
roars echoing through empty streets.
Grozny has been a bastion of rebel
resistance throughout the war, which
has entered its fifth month, and its cap
ture would give the Russian forces a
boost after a series of surprise counter
attacks by the rebels.
But control over Grozny could
backfire, as it did during the 1994-96
bloodshed in Chechnya. During that
war, Russians took the city and held it
for more than a year, but lost it to the
Chechens in a humiliating and bloody
defeat.
After facing relatively little resistance
in Chechnya’s northern lowlands, Russ
ian forces have been stalled at Grozny for
months and only recently began pressing
into rebel strongholds in the southern
mountains.
On Wednesday, Russian helicopter
gunships and artillery pounded the steep,
wooded mountain slopes near the mouth
of the strategic Argun Gorge, about 30
miles south of Grozny.
An AP reporter took shelter behind
some rocks on the edge of the village of
Dachu-Borzoi as helicopters swooped
down to strafe the woods.
Eleven civilians were killed Tuesday
in an air raid against Dachu-Borzoi, in
cluding seven members of the family of
local administrator Alu Khasayev.
At the edge of the nearby village of
Duba-Yurt, a knot of elders crowded
around Russian officers yesterday, plead
ing for an end to shelling. Adam Akhya-
zov, chief administrator of the village.
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CHECHNYA
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CHECHNYA
Grozny
AP
said three civilians had been killed in
Dubd-Yurt over the past two da> **.
“When people want to leave the vil
lage. the Russians prev ent them, promis
ing not to target the \ illage," he said.
Meanwhile, a pro-Moscow Chechen
leader claimed Wednesday to be mediat
ing in talks between several Chechen
warlords and federal authorities.
Oil at highest prices since Gulf War
LONDON (AP) — Petroleum prices surged Wednesday
to the highest levels seen since the Persian Gulf War, raising
concerns about worsening inflation and a possible threat to
the economies of poor, oil-importing nations.
Prices turned lower later in the day for North Sea Brent
oil but continued a rally for the U.S. benchmark West Texas
Intermediate crude.
The rebound in oil reflects signs that OPEC is planning
to extend production limits as well as a cold snap in the
northeastern United States that stoked demand for heating
oil and natural gas.
Industry analysts said that even though crude oil prices
have more than doubled in the past year, countries dependent
on imported oil should he able to avoid severe economic
pain, barring another big and sustained spike in prices.
Before the late retreat, crude contracts in London reached
their highest prices since Jan. 16, 1991, on the eve of the air
and missile offensive launched against Iraq by U.S.-led
forces in the Gulf.
Much of the speculative buying is a result of expectations
that ministers of the Organization of the Petroleum I vpon-
ing Countries will agree in March to extend the production
limits adopted last year.
Evidence of tight supplies came in an industry report ves-
terday of the steepest annual decline in U.S. crude oil in
ventories in at least a half century.
The Amen can Petroleum Institute said U.S. oil inventories de
clined by more than 136 million barrels in 1999, a 12.7 percent
plunge from the prev ious year and the biggest drop for a full cal
endar year in API records going back to 1950.
Contracts for Brent oil for March deliver) jumped 25 cents
per barrel to peak at $26.30 in early trading on the London Inter
national Petroleum Exchange, before slipping a hit. In late inkl
ing yesterday, Brent was down 10 cents from Tuesday at $25.95.
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Texas A&M University
Women’s Week Awards Nomination
Women’s Week 2000 Committee is accepting nominations for Women's Week Awards. The
awards are designed to honor Texas A&M University students, staff, faculty, and administrators
who encourage and promote the sensitivity to and awareness of issues that relate to women.
Award recipients will receive public recognition, an award piece and a $100 U.S. Savings Bond.
The awards will be presented at the Women's Week Awards Luncheon on March 21 at the Bush
Conference Center.
For more information and nomination forms, check the Women's Week website at
womensweek.tamu.edu. Send nomination letters and nomination forms to: Nicole Pottberg,
Chair, TAMU Women’s Week Awards Committee, Engineering Program Office - MS 3126.
Nomination deadline is February 7.
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The Drummers
of West Africa
Direct from Dakar, Senegal
The Drummers of West Africa
Doudou N’Diaye Rose, Artistic Director
Company of 35
Saturday, January 29 at 3:00 PM • Rudder Auditorium
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